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VSPO Space and Solar Physics Product Finder provides a way to access data products, model products, other types of space and solar physics products and metadata that describes these products. It also has the capability to deliver data for some of these products. The products registered in VSPO include; solar movies, browse plots and data from over 50 spacecraft, data and plots of activity indices, links to model results, runs-on-demand from CCMC and OMNI, CDAWeb data and plots delivered directly or through their original interfaces, and other data from over 40 repositories. Products are continually being added. Suggestions for new products and changes to current listings are always welcome. Our aim is to deliver products or pointers to them as efficiently as possible (ideally "three clicks to the data" ).

The Product Finder presents a list of accessible products on the right side of the page. This list that can be reduced by adding query restrictions until the desired products are found. The initial list consists of all available products. The simplest way to shorten the list is to use the text search field.

For example, adding two restrictions - "plot" and then "Ulysses" (without quotes) will reduce the list to browse plot products associated with Ulysses. The "access URL" column contains links to product specific sites. Searches may include spacecraft names (e.g., "SOHO," "Geotail," or "Double" for Double Star), instrument abbreviations ("CAMMICE", "EPAC", ...), types of measurement ("magnetic", "plasma", ...), provider names ("CCMC", "CDAWeb", ...) and names of indecies ("dst", "sunspot", ...). It may take a couple of restrictions to to find the products you want. In most cases text search is the fastest way to find products. You can use quotation marks to search for a phrase in the metadata. Putting multiple keywords/phrases in the text search box will result in a restriction containg either of these strings.

Clicking the product name will bring up a window with detailed product metadata. Clicking the "get data" button (where available) will bring up an accessor window for data access. Various other routes to data, including ftp sites and provider interfaces, are listed in the "access URL" column of the results list.

It is also possible to add restrictions specific to a particular metadata element (such as "measurement type", "observatory", "product type", etc). To do this, select one of the items in the "Select element to search upon:" panel. Active restrictions are listed in the "Current product list restrictions:" panel and can be removed by hitting the appropriate "remove" button.

For convenience we have included a link to the LWS site for current space weather information and a link to the NASA ADS abstract service that will provide recent articles about the use of the products for the latter, click on "Journal Search" and enter , for example, "SOHO EIT" or "ACE EPAM" (again no quotes) in the "Abstract Words" box and click submit to find abstracts and sometimes even full articles using these instruments.

Finally, links are provided to orbit information from SSCWeb and the NSSDC.